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l PENCIL CLASP.

110.289.476. Patented Dec.' 4, 18183.

` Inventar: ,Sigowry 6118s, -by' 'df '.Httorney;

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NTTED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

SIGOUENEY WALES, oE cAMEEinGE, MASSACHUSETTS, Assia-NOE To WILL- IAM c. HOWARD, oE NEW YORK, E. Y.

PENCIL-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,476, dated December 4, 1883.

` Application filed March 1D, 1883. (No model.)

new and useful Improvements in Pencil-Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specicationl My invention relates to a pencil-holder to 1o be attached to a garment of the user; and it consists of a spring tube or socket so constructed as to form one jaw of a clasp, in coinbination with a second jaw pivoted thereto and eXteriorly thereof, and provided with a curved spring-arm which projects through an opening into the interior of said socket, and has "formed at its upper end a catch in the form of a roll or coil of the metal, Which snaps over and engageswith the `upper end of the wall of 2o said socket when the jaws are forced together upon the material to which they are to be secured, and thus firmly securesthe grip of the jaws upon the material against accidental 'release.

l Figure 1 of the drawings is an elevation of Aa blank cut from thin sheet metal, fromwhich the socket portion of the holder is to be formed by bending and swaging it into the shape illusj trated in Figs. 2, 3, 4,. and 5, which are re- 3o spectively-a front elevation, a side elevation,

a rear elevation, and a transverse section on line :v xof the finished socket. Fig. 6 is an elevation .of the `blank cut from thin sheet metal, from which the movable jaw of the 5 holder is to be formed by bending and swaging to the shape illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, and 9, which are respectively a side elevation an end view, and a transverse section on line y y. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the holder com- Fig. 11 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 12 is a vertical section on line z z on Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a transverse section on line on on Figs. 10, 11, and 12; and Fig. 14 is a cen"- tral vertical section illustrating the applica- .i5 tion of my improved holder to the upper edge of avest-pocket Welt, with a pencil in position therein.

The blank from which the socket A is to be formed is provided with the fingers a c, and

` 5o has cut through its center the opening b, and

in the strip of metal c,at each side of said v tiallyiiat or uncurved, as shown in Figs. 4

and 5.

The blank from which the movable jaw is shallow recess, the tongue e being at the same time bent, as shown in Fig. S, to form at its upper end the roll or bead e, and give it aV curve between said roll and the blade e, as shown, which curved portion of the tongue e', when in position in the completed holder, serves as a spring, by the partial straightening of which the bead e3 is permitted to pass over the upper edge of the socket A at f, and holds it firmly in such position when allowed to assume its normal position.

In applying this holder to a garment-say the upper edge of a vest-pocket welt, as illustrated in Fig. 1li-it is only necessary to open the jaws of the clamp by pressing vthe upper Vend of the ton ue e inward to disenfrave the g b b bead e from the upper edge of the socket A, place the pocket-.welt between the jaws d and e, and then press upon the inner curved surface of the tongue e/ until the bead e3 snaps `over the top of the socket A, when the teeth d and l2 will have been forced into the cloth and pressed it into the recess of the jaw e, which is ofsoinewhat greater area than the jaw d. When the pencil B isplaeed in the socket, its walls and the ngers a a yield to accommodate the size of the pencil, and press thereon to hold it in place, and the pencil pressing upon the tongue e prevents anypos- IOO sibility of accidental unclasping ofthe holder, and particularly is this the case when entering and withdrawing` it, and it is obvious that when tion outside thereof, and provided at its upper end with the roll or bead c3, adapted to engage .15 with the upper end of the tubular socket, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisspeciiication, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, ou this 17th day of March, 2o

' sIGoURNEY wALns.

Witnesses:

E. Af HEMM-ENWAY, VALTER E. LOMBARD. 

